100 Records We Really Dug in 2017

You’re probably wondering why we’re running a “Required Listening” roundup two days before we say goodbye to 2017. The answer is simple: We don’t believe in Top Anything’s anymore. Not when everyone has access to everything, and it takes something truly special to hold someone’s attention for more than 30 minutes.

Here it is, then: 100 in-no-particular-order records from the past year that moved us in some way, whether that meant a drawn-out dose of morose doom-metal (Bell Witch) or the welcome return of disco-punk’s reluctant don (LCD Soundsystem frontman James Murphy, who is leading the band into battle during the ball drop portion of their ‘final show’ above).